Monthly Archives: October 2017

HRWF (03.10.2017) – On 22 September, Majid Oukacha, a former Muslim and author of Il était une fois l’Islam (English version: Face to Faith with Islam), posted a video on YouTube that shows a group of around 300 Muslims praying on the street of Clichy-la-Garenne in front of the town hall and using a megaphone. […]

By Abdul Rashid Thomas The Sierra Leone Telegraph (28.09.2017) – http://bit.ly/2xPOa25 – Sierra Leone’s ministry of religious affairs has taken swift steps to indefinitely suspend the operating licence of a church established by a Nigerian pastor – Victor Ajisafe, who last weekend caused national outrage, after preaching religious hate sermon to his congregation in Freetown. […]

Rituals involve the girls being dressed as brides and then having their dresses removed “virtually leaving them naked” By Anuradha Nagaraj Thomas Reuters Foundation (26.09.2017) – http://tmsnrt.rs/2xWemtY – The practice of keeping young girls in village temples to be worshipped as goddesses as part of rituals in south India amounts to abuse and slavery, the […]

By Nikolaj Nielsen Excerpt from EU Observer (02.10.2017) – http://bit.ly/2xQV07g – Reports are now emerging of young Syrian refugee girls in Egypt having their genitals mutilated – a widespread practice among Egyptians – by Syrian parents. Cases of what is also known as “female genital mutilation” (or FGM) began to surface months ago. “Syrian refugees started […]

By Jardine Malado The Christian Times (29.09.2017) – http://bit.ly/2khpsEC – Around 5,000 Christians gathered on the streets in India’s Jharkhand state on Monday to protest the jailing of six Pentecostals who were accused of offering money to villagers to convert them to Christianity. Five men and one woman were arrested from Tukupani village in Simdega […]

Radio Free Asia (27.09.2017) – http://bit.ly/2y9dvXO – Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered ethnic minority Muslim families to hand in religious items including prayer mats and copies of the Quran to the authorities, RFA has learned. Officials across Xinjiang have been warning neighborhoods and mosques that ethnic minority Uyghur, Kazakh and […]

The book Dimensions of Religious Freedom in Contemporary Europe (502 pages) was published by The Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in Wałbrzych (Poland) and edited by Piotr Szymaniec. Those interested in getting a printed copy can contact him at pszymaniec@poczta.onet.pl. Preface “Religious freedom, considered as an analytical category, is a subject of interest for scholars representing various disciplines. The […]